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Tuesday, September 5, 2000
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History professor’s book provides global perspective on Korean War |
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 This international history of the Korean War argues that its timing, its course and its outcome made it in effect a substitute for World War III.
Author and UGA history professor William Stueck draws on materials from seven countries plus the archives of the United Nations. The Korean War is a detailed narrative of the diplomacy of the conflict and a broad assessment of its critical role in the Cold War. Stueck emphasizes the contribution of the United Nations, which at several key points in the conflict provided an important institutional framework within which less powerful nations were able to restrain the aggressive tendencies of the United States.
In Stueck’s view, contributors to the U.N. cause in Korea provided support not out of any abstract commitment to a universal system of collective security but because they saw an opportunity to influence U.S. policy. At the moment of Chinese intervention in Korea in the fall of 1950, as in other instances prior to the armistice in July 1953, NATO allies and Third World neutrals succeeded in curbing American adventurism and so in blocking the spread of hostilities to other parts of the world. While conceding the tragic and brutal nature of the war, Stueck suggests that it helped to prevent the occurrence of an even more destructive conflict in Europe.
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